EA Program Director

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation•Charlotte, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Solution Architect - Vice President serves as a strategic technology advisor responsible for defining architecture standards, evaluating technology solutions, and guiding enterprise technology initiatives. This role partners closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology strategy. Working across business domains and technology teams, the role provides architectural leadership for application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, and platform-related initiatives. The successful candidate will evaluate technology solutions, review complex architectures, establish standards, support governance activities, and provide guidance to project teams throughout the solution lifecycle. This is a highly collaborative individual contributor role requiring strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance business priorities with technology objectives while driving consistency, scalability, security, and operational excellence across the enterprise.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, technology strategy, or related technical leadership roles.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, methodologies, and technology governance practices.
Experience developing architecture roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and technology strategies aligned with business objectives.
Experience evaluating technologies, platforms, vendor solutions, and implementation approaches to support business and technology initiatives.
Strong understanding of application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity architecture concepts.
Experience designing and reviewing enterprise-scale solutions involving cloud platforms, APIs, enterprise applications, data platforms, and operational systems.
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, API management, and system interoperability.
Experience supporting technology onboarding, architecture reviews, technical assessments, and governance processes.
Strong understanding of solution scalability, resiliency, performance, security, operational support, and maintainability considerations.
Experience creating architecture artifacts including conceptual designs, logical architectures, technical designs, and implementation guidance.
Strong experience using Jira and related planning tools to support technology initiatives, requirements management, backlog planning, and project execution.
Ability to evaluate technical risks, dependencies, architectural tradeoffs, and implementation approaches.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Demonstrated ability to balance strategic architecture objectives with practical implementation considerations.
Experience influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across business and technology organizations.
Ability to work across multiple initiatives while maintaining consistency with enterprise architecture standards and long-term technology strategy.
Experience providing technical leadership and architectural guidance without direct management responsibility.
Proven success supporting digital transformation, technology modernization, governance, and enterprise architecture initiatives.
Strong relationship management skills and ability to collaborate effectively across diverse stakeholder groups.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
Experience supporting enterprise data, analytics, reporting, integration, platform modernization, or cloud transformation initiatives.
Knowledge of application modernization, DevSecOps, platform engineering, automation, or enterprise integration practices.
Experience working within financial services or other highly regulated environments.
Experience supporting enterprise architecture governance, standards development, and strategic technology planning.
Certifications are not required. Demonstrated experience defining architecture standards, evaluating technologies, and guiding successful enterprise technology initiatives is preferred over certification credentials.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and implementation guidance.
Evaluate technology solutions, platforms, products, and services to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business objectives.
Review solution designs and provide architectural guidance to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and operationally supportable.
Support technology modernization initiatives and digital transformation efforts across the enterprise.
Provide architecture oversight for application, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, and platform-related initiatives.
Identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural impacts and provide recommendations for mitigation and resolution.
Contribute to technology onboarding activities, architecture reviews, technical assessments, and governance processes.
Develop architecture artifacts including conceptual, logical, and physical architecture designs.
Support strategic planning activities by helping define future-state technology capabilities and roadmaps.
Partner with business stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate requirements into practical technology solutions.
Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, data teams, and project teams to support successful solution delivery.
Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design sessions, planning activities, and technology assessments.
Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Build effective relationships across business and technology organizations to promote alignment and successful outcomes.
Facilitate discussions between stakeholders to identify and evaluate technology options and architectural tradeoffs.
Support governance processes by providing architectural recommendations, technical reviews, and standards guidance.
Demonstrate strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, methodologies, frameworks, and governance practices.
Maintain expertise across application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security architecture domains.
Demonstrate understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API architectures, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
Apply expertise in evaluating technologies, defining architecture standards, and establishing implementation patterns.
Demonstrate knowledge of cloud platforms, enterprise applications, data platforms, infrastructure technologies, and emerging technology trends.
Apply architectural expertise to support solution scalability, resiliency, security, operational support, and maintainability requirements.
Maintain awareness of evolving technology trends and identify opportunities to improve enterprise technology capabilities.
Promote consistency, standardization, and architectural best practices across technology initiatives.